2023年6月24日发(作者：)

入职英语测试笔试（A卷）

一 词汇

1. During these ten years, many new methods have been ________ in the field of

foreign language teaching.

A) adopted B) adapted C) alarmed D) aided

2. The fifth generation computers, with ________ intelligence, are being developed

and perfected now.

A) unreal B) man-made C) fake D) artificial

3. If you want to see the CEO of this company, you’d better make a(n) _______

with his secretary first.

A) interview B) commitment C) appointment D) visit

4. The government concluded that lowering the population growth rate would

enhance the _______ of the nation.

A) popularity B) intensity C) density D) prosperity

5. After two children had been hurt, the company was forced to ________ the toy

from store shelves.

A) lack B) withdraw C) leak D) omit

6. My passport is ______ for ten years.

A) valid B) beneficial C) fruitful D) effective

7. The movie ________ her almost overnight from an unknown schoolgirl into a

megastar.

A) transformed B) transported C) transferred D) transmit

8. Every culture has developed _________ for certain kinds of food and drink, and

equally strong negative attitudes toward others.

A) expectations B) preferences C) fantasies D) fashions

9. Being out of work, Jane can no longer ________ friends to dinners and movies as

she used to.

A) urge B) treat C) appeal D) compel

10. ________ our agents, we have complete confidence in their honesty.

A) Regardless of B) On regard to C) Concerning to D) With reference to

11. Betty’s first husband had ________ her fortune.

A) stolen B) robbed her of C) hijacked D) squeezed out

12. The cost of these complex operations is _______ but poorly known.

A) considerable B) sufficient C) enormous D) numerous

13. Being impatient is _______ with being a good teacher.

A) intrinsic B) ingenious C) incompatible D) inherent

14. It is hard to tell whether we are going to have a boom in the economy or a

_______.

A) concession B) recession C) submission D) transmission

15. She was told to wear flat shoes, ________ her back problem.

A) on behalf of B) in the event of C) on account of D) in case of

16. Women’s employment opportunities are often severely ________ by family

commitments.

A) refrained B) constrained C) restrained D) strained

17. Though they think it takes no more than three days to _______ the mission, I

believe it takes not less than six days.

A) fulfill B) cancel C) avoid D) postpone

18. Eye contact is important because wrong contact may create a communication

________.

A) tragedy B) question C) vacuum D) barrier

19. Trades between developing countries and industrialized countries are

beginning to _______.

A) amplify B) expand C) enlarge D) expend

20. The university has already _______ honorary degrees on several prime

minsters.

A) deferred B) referred C) conferred D) inferred

二、语法

1. The typical career pattern was geared ________ men whose wives didn’t work.

A) for B) to C) at D) in

2. The tourist _______ and checked out of the hotel.

A) settled on B) settled up C) settled in D) settled down

3. They insisted that everyone _______ to the party.

A) came B) had come C) come D) have come

4. They objected to _______ an unnecessary gloomy picture at first.

A) being give B) be given C) being given D) be give

5. I’m paid by the hour, so I spin the work _______ as long as I can.

A) on B) off C) out D) in

6. The last half of the nineteenth century _______ the steady improvement in the

means of travel.

A) witnessed B) was witnessed C) has witnessed D) is witnessed

7. Many people gathered to _______ the victims of the plane tragedy.

A) show farewell to B) bid farewell for

C) show farewell for D) bid farewell to

8. The men idled their time _______ on street corners or outside the pub, cadging a

drink or a smoke.

A) away B) about C) down D) off

9. Pollution has a negative effect on the health of everyone living in the city, ______

the damage to the environment.

A) not to mentioning B) not mentioning

C) not to mention D) not mention

10. All flights _______ because of the terrible weather, they had to go there by

train.

A) having been cancelled B) had been cancelled

C) having cancelled D) were cancelled 11. So many directors _______, the board meeting had to be put off.

A) were absent B) been absent C) had been absent D) being absent

12. ________ everyone here, may I wish you a very happy retirement.

A) With behalf of B) By behalf of C) On behalf of D) In behalf of

13. Schools will be ________ pupils and funds if they fail to satisfy parents.

A) liable in losing B) liable to losing

C) liable at losing D) liable to lose

14. The discovery of oil acted as a ______ industrial development.

A) stimulus on B) stimulus towards C) stimulus to D) stimulus for

15. Nuclear waste can cause serious damage to the environment if not _______

properly.

A) disposed at B) disposed in C) disposed down D) disposed of

16. A person with higher qualifications can get a better paid job _______ their

career.

A) at the outset of B) in the outset of C) at outset of D) in outset of

17. The Supreme Court decision _______ further legislation on civil rights.

A) paved the way for B) paved the way in

C) paved the way under D) paved the way on

18. These organizations usually _______ older people committed to fighting elderly

issues directly.

A) consist among B) consist in C) consist of D) consist about

19. We view this partnership as _______ achieving our goals.

A) vital for B) vital by C) vital of D) vital to

20. Young males ________ high pay and promotion than older people, and less

concerned with security or job satisfaction.

A) were keen in B) were keen with

C) were keen about D) were keen on

三、阅读理解

Passage One

I’ve heard from and talked to many people who described how Mother

Nature simplified their lives for them. They’d lost their home and many or all of

their possessions through fires, floods, earthquakes, or some other disaster.

Losing everything you own under such circumstances can be distressing, but the

people I’ve heard from all saw their loss, ultimately as a blessing.

“The fire saved us the agony of deciding what to keep and what to get rid

of,” one woman wrote. And once all those things were no longer there, she and

her husband saw how they had weighed them down and complicate their lives.

“There was so much stuff we never used and that was just taking up space.

We vowed when we started over, we’d replace only what we needed, and this time

we’d do it right. We’ve kept our promise: we don’t have much now, but what we

have is exactly what we want.”

Though we’ve never had a catastrophic loss such as that, Gibbs and I did have a close call shortly before we decided to simplify. At that time we lived in a fire

zone. One night a firestorm rages through and destroyed over six hundred homes

in our community. That tragedy gave us the opportunity to look objectively at the

goods we’d accumulated.

We saw that there was so much we could get rid of and only never miss, but

be better off without. Having almost lost it all, we found it much easier to let go of

the things we knew we’d never use again.

Obviously, there’s a tremendous difference between getting rid of

possessions and losing them through a natural disaster without having a say in

the matter. And this is not to minimize the tragedy and pain such a loss can

generate.

But you might think about how you would approach the acquisition process

if you had it to do all over again. Look around your home and make a list of what

you would replace.

Make another list of things you wouldn’t acquire again no matter what, and

in fact would be happy to be rid of.

When you’re ready to start unloading some of your stuff, that list will be a

good place to start.

1. What did people consider the loss of their possessions in natural disasters as?

____________________________________________________________________________

2. How did the lives of the woman and her husband changed after a fire?

_____________________________________________________________________________

3. What do we know about the author’s house from the sentence “Gibbs and did

have a close call ...” (Line 1-2, Para. 4)?

_____________________________________________________________________________

4. According to the author, what is different in terms of the loss of possessions?

_____________________________________________________________________________

5. What does the author suggest people do with unnecessary things?

_____________________________________________________________________________

Passage Two

Google is a world-famous company, with its headquarters in Mountain View,

California. It was set up in a Silicon Valley garage in 1998, and inflated with the

Internet bubble. Even when everything around it collapsed the company kept on

inflating. Google’s search engine is so widespread across the world that search

became Google, and google became a verb. The world fell in love with the effective,

fascinatingly fast technology.

Google owes much of its success to the brilliance of S. Brin and L. Page, but

also to a series of fortunate events. It was Page who, at Stanford in 1996, initiated

the academic project that eventually became Google’s search engine. Brin, who

had met Page at a student orientation a year earlier, joined the project early on.

They were both Ph.D. candidates when they devised the search engine, which was better than the rest and, without any marketing, spread by word of mouth from

early adopters to, eventually, your grandmother.

Their breakthrough, simply put, was that when their search engine crawled

the Web, it did more than just look for word matches, it also tallied (统计) and

ranked a host of other critical factors like how websites link to one another. That

delivered far better results than anything else. Brin and Page meant to name their

creation Googol (the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100

zeroes), but someone misspelled the word so it stuck as Google. They raised

money from prescient (有先见之明的) professors and venture capitalists, and

moved off campus to turn Google into business. Perhaps their biggest stroke of

luck came early on when they tried to sell their technology to other search

engines, but no one met their price, and they built it up on their own.

The next breakthrough came in 2000, when Google figured out how to make

money with its invention. It had lots of users, but almost no one was paying. The

solution turned out to be advertising, and it’s not an exaggeration to say that

Google is now essentially an advertising company, given that that’s the source of

nearly all its revenue. Today it is a giant advertising company, worth $100 billion.

6. Apart from a series of fortunate events, what is it that has made Google so

successful?

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7. What did Google’s search engine originate from?

______________________________________________________________________________

8. How did Google’s search engine spread all over the world?

______________________________________________________________________________

9. Why did Brin and Page decided to set up their own business?

______________________________________________________________________________

10. How did Google Company increase their revenue?

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四、写作

You are the manager of a training center. You have received a letter of complaint

from a participant. Write a letter of apology referring to the following two points

in the letter.

1. The logistic support was not very good.

2. As to your claim about “excellent instructor”, I must tell you that I did have a

boring day with the instructor.